Exhumation of the Inyo Mountains, California: Implications for the timing of extension along the western boundary of the Basin and Range Province and distribution of dextral fault slip rates across the eastern California shear zone

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lee, Jeffrey ^a   Stockli, Daniel F ^b   Owen, Lewis A ^c   Finkel, Robert C ^d   Kislitsyn, Roman ^b  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; APATITE; CRETACEOUS; EXHUMATION; EXTENSION; FAULT ZONE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SHEAR ZONE; TERTIARY;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; INYO MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; OWENS VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649494652     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008TC002295     Document Type: Article

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